Twitter and Instagram were filled over the past week with alarming hashtags like #100days100nights after a gang reportedly vowed 100 days of violence to avenge the death of a man who was killed in South Los Angeles in mid-July.

Now, pastors in the community are trying to get a different campaign to take effect: 100 days of peace and prayer.

In the wake of the frightening social media postings and a surge in South L.A. shootings, a group of pastors met Thursday night to talk about the tension.

“We have to do something immediately,” the Rev. Lewis Logan said at the meeting.

In 2005, Logan opened the doors of his former church for gang-intervention efforts. On Thursday night, Logan pushed the meeting’s attendees to go into the hot spots in South L.A. this weekend.

When Kevin Norwood was shot to death at the Compton Flea Market in 1989, he was just 18. “I lost my mind,” says his mother, Rita Norwood Belfry, pounding on doors around her Compton neighborhood, trying to flush out her son’s killer.

Then Belfry’s 18-year-old nephew Deon, whom she raised as a son, was killed in a drive-by shooting the following year. “We had to replace my son’s headstone with a double headstone for him and my nephew.”

Belfry, a community activist best known as Ms. Ritta, has known many other shooting victims in the 40 years she’s lived in Compton, but the final straw came July 12, when Darrell “Shadow” Hines, another nephew she raised from age 8, was shot and killed at Caress Avenue and Marcelle Street, just a few blocks from her home.

Police are working to calm concerns about gang violence after a cluster of gang-related shootings in South L.A. over the weekend and various threats on social media, The Times has reported.

The death of 27-year-old Kenneth Lynn Peevy on July 17 sparked an incendiary claim that a gang had vowed 100 days of violence in retaliation for his shooting in Westmont. Among the Twitter conversations were the hashtags #100days100nights and #prayforLA.

But LAPD Deputy Chief Bill Scott said Tuesday that the department's 77th Street Division had not seen a gang-related shooting since Saturday night.

"The fear, it's still out there. It takes a while to dial this stuff back," he told The Times. "That thing took on a life of its own."

Ezeoma Chigozie Obioha, 31, was charged July 28 with capital murder in the July 5 shooting death of Carrie Jean Melvin in Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

Obioha is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. Obioha also faces the special circumstances of lying in wait and murder for financial gain, prosecutors said.

As Melvin, 30, was walking with her boyfriend about 10 p.m., Obioha allegedly walked up behind her and fired a single round from a shot gun. The case remains under investigation by the LAPD’s West Bureau homicide detectives.

George Hang, a 17-year-old Asian teenager, was shot and killed Monday, July 27, in the 8700 block of Valley Boulevard in Rosemead, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

The investigation began about 10:10 a.m., when the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call from a woman saying she had shot her son, according to coroner’s records.

Lt. Victor Lewandowski said the mother and her son lived in a residence in the city of Rosemead but had checked into the Valley Hotel the day before the shooting. “I can’t get into the reasons why, or discuss anything about her physical or mental health,” Lewandowski said.

Investigators learned that some guests in the hotel had heard gunshots about 5 a.m. but didn’t report them, he said.

Michael Rowles, pastor of the Wrecking Crew for Christ church, has officiated at hundreds of funerals. Yet he was unable write the eulogy for Saturday’s service: his little brother’s.

“I’m going to pray and ask the Lord to lead me because I am not prepared for
this,” he said.

People packed the pews and aisles tightly for Ladell Edward Rowles, 50, who was shot to death July 8 in Broadway-Manchester, not far from the church where his funeral was held. Those who couldn’t fit inside New Temple Missionary Baptist Church listened from the lobby or waited outside for a chance to say their goodbyes.

Michael Rowles gave fiery sermon about recent violence in the neighborhood. The day would not be overshadowed by gang banging, he said.

"We have gang members running around trying to kill people — for what? To create fear and hurt innocent people," Michael ...

Spencer Herrera, a 29-year-old Latino, was shot and killed Sunday, July 26, in the 12600 block of Pierce Street in Pacoima, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

Patrol officers from the Los Angeles Police Department Foothill Division received a call about a shooting at 5:45 a.m. When they arrived, they found Muro and Spencer Herrera, a 29-year-old Latino, with gunshot wounds.

Both men were taken to local hospitals. Herrera was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m., according to coroner’s records.

The men were standing on the sidewalk outside the apartment building where Herrera lived when they were shot, Det. Michael Berretta said.

Berretta said investigators were still trying to determine how the men were connected and why they were shot.

No weapons were found at the scene, and there is no evidence that the men shot each other, he said.

Mario Muro, a 32-year-old Latino, was shot and killed on Sunday, July 26, in the 12600 block of Pierce Street in Pacoima, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

Patrol officers from the Los Angeles Police Department Foothill Division received a call about a shooting at 5:45 a.m. When they arrived, they found Muro and Spencer Herrera, a 29-year-old Latino, with gunshot wounds.

Both men were taken to hospitals. Muro, of North Hollywood, was pronounced dead at 6:27 a.m., according to coroner’s records.

The men were standing on the sidewalk outside the apartment building where Herrera lived when they were shot, Det. Michael Berretta said.

Berretta said that investigators are still trying to determine how the men were connected and why they were shot. No weapons were found at the scene, and there is no evidence that the men shot each other, he said ...

Ezeoma Obioha, a 31-year-old black man, was arrested at 7:15 p.m. Friday on suspicion of the murder of Carrie Jean Melvin, according to Lt. John Radke of the Los Angeles Police Department. Obioha remains in custody and is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

Authorities believe the motive for the shooting was financial and that Obioha was lying in wait for Melvin.

Anthony Alonzo Cudger, a 47-year-old black man, was shot and killed Saturday, July 25, at the intersection of South Hoover and West 88th streets in Vermont Knolls, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

Cudger was sitting in a dark-colored Honda about 4 p.m. at a stop sign when a gunman in another car stopped alongside, got out of the car and opened fire, police said.

The gunman drove away in a light-colored SUV. Police said they believe that more than one person was in the vehicle.

Cudger's vehicle collided into a light pole. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:15 p.m., according to coroner’s records.

Scott said the attack came after some “verbal sparring” at a gang member’s funeral earlier in the day, about a mile and a half away from the shooting scene.

Rudy Deanda, a 28-year-old Latino, was shot and killed Saturday, July 25, in the 3300 block of Sanborn Avenue in Lynwood, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies received a call about a shooting about 4:55 p.m., according to a department news release.

Deanda was standing in the front yard of a residence when two Latinos walked up to him, showed a handgun and began shooting, according to the release. Deanda tried to run away, but one of the men chased him and fired several more rounds.

Deanna collapsed in front of a nearby residence, according to the news release. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:54 p.m., according to coroner’s records.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at ...

Bernie Melvin and his wife had spent hours in the silence of his daughter's studio apartment in the city where she had come to fulfill her dreams.

Her belongings were all still there: the photo of the blowfish from a trip to Maui, her cookbooks and the brown chair where her cat Fido loved to snuggle.

He knew that steps from the apartment was the spot where Carrie Melvin was shot and killed, and decided he had to go downstairs. He had to see where it happened. As he walked to the spot, he cried as rush-hour traffic whirred by on Sunset Boulevard.

On July 5 about 10 p.m., Carrie Melvin and her boyfriend were walking south on McCadden Place approaching Sunset when a man walked up from behind and shot Melvin, police said. The man then jumped into a dark-colored sedan and drove off. Melvin collapsed and ...

Joseph Myles McMahon, a 24-year-old white man, was shot and killed Friday, July 24, in the 3700 block of Yorkshire Road in East Pasadena, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the upscale residential area about 2:19 a.m. after receiving a call about gunfire. They found McMahon lying in the street in front of the driveway next to his home, with gunshot wounds to his torso, according to Lt. Holly Francisco.

McMahon was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics at 2:42 a.m., according to coroner’s records.

McMahon, a former associate producer on the Discovery Channel reality program “Deadliest Catch,” lived at the residence with his parents, Francisco told The Times. Family members said he had gone outside just before the shooting occurred to investigate a noise.

Arthur George Palmer, a 73-year-old white man, was found dead from blunt-force injuries Friday, July 24, in the 3000 block of Frances Avenue in La Crescenta, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were called to the scene about 1:30 p.m. by a neighbor who had not seen or heard from Palmer in some time, according to a department news release.

When deputies arrived, they found Palmer’s body inside the garage that is attached to his home, according to the release. He had multiple blunt-force injuries to the head, according to coroner’s records, and was pronounced dead at 1:45 p.m.

Palmer was known to be a recluse, according to the release. Investigators are interested in talking to anyone who saw Palmer, or visited his home, prior to his death.